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Topic: History
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Saving the angel
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« This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps…
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Open the drawer
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Visiting his hometown, Tartus, he opened a drawer of old family photographs.
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What Sweden is, not
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« Once the most social democratic country in Europe, and then, in the 1990s, the most neoliberal one, Sweden now aims to become the most nationalist one. »
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Looted libraries
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« In both countries, it has left the government officials grappling with an extremely delicate and complex issue. Why is it so difficult to move forward? »
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A woman in Tangiers: against erasure
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« I detect the head of a mannequin. Then the grains get too coarse. »
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The sea between
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« In order to survive amidst this bleak existence, the Mediterranean people established two distinct strategies: hopelessness or salvation. Some embraced hopelessness as the best way to approach the absurd condition…
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Texting with … Lilia Topouzova
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I wanted to show that history and memory are inseparable—and that unsilencing is itself a method.
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Letter to the editor
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Issue Nine features the essay After Midnight, by Alexander Etkind and Johanna Gautier-Morin. Here’s a reaction to that essay, by Frances Butler, who has recently completed her PhD in Geography at UCL…
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Child KingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Talk Proto-Indo-European to me, darling
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*wīrós (man), *h₁ék̂wōs (horse), *gwéneh₂ (woman)
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Queen of the nightThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Maria Theresa, Habsburg empress, created the modern European state. To ponder her reign is to ask what the Enlightenment was — and is. Be careful with your nostalgias.
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My untranslatable nameThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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When my parents went to register my name after I was born, they carried out an especially elaborate plan. They acquired a chocolate bar